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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Dear Colleague: NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (ADBC) is in its third year. The primary goal of this wide-reaching program is to create online access to data from all of our nation’s
natural history collections through the portal at iDigBio (</span><a href="http://www.idigbio.org/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
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where data are available for >11,000,000 specimen records and the number is increasing weekly. </span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">This massive amount of data provides new opportunities for previously intractable research requiring large amounts of spatial and
temporal data, provides new information for educational and outreach initiatives and – importantly – provides opportunities to demonstrate the extraordinary value of our natural history collections. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:
Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">To review how we can maximize the value of this national effort, a symposium, <span style="color:blue">'Collections for the 21st
Century,'</span> sponsored by iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA) will be held on May 5-6, 2014, at the University of Florida. It will emphasize the value of collections and address questions relevant to the national digitization effort,
such as:</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">What data are available or could be made available?</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">How are the data being used? What research questions can we address?</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:
Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">Have we demonstrated the power of collections data to answer big-science questions?</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">How can the data improve our institutions’ educational and outreach activities?</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:
Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">How do we translate our accomplishments into more public and private support for our collections?</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">The symposium will feature a full day of talks on May 5 and a half–day of talks on May 6. <u>Attached to this email is a list of
speakers and titles</u>. Field trips to nearby natural areas will be held on the afternoon of May 6 for those who are interested, as will opportunities to work in collections or tour the Florida Museum of Natural History. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">Registration for the symposium is free, but travel-related expenses are the responsibility of each participant. Information on
accommodations at a discounted rate will be provided when you register. <u>Attendance will be limited to 80 persons so please register soon if you plan to attend. </u> Register online at: </span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#0049B7">https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri">Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues whom you think may be interested in attending.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Thank you! Hope to see you at the symposium in May!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Larry</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><i>I apologize to those of you who have received this email on other listservs.</i></span></p>
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